Retrospective on Street Fighter: The Movie (the movie. lol)

http://www.1up.com/features/street-fighter-movie-retrospective

Figures that de Souza wrote that shit on an all-nighter.


Pretty amusing read.

What about that masterpiece of gaming: Street Fighter: the Movie: The game?

To be honest SF wasn't as bad as the MK movie.

I would soon as gargle my own nuts as watch this movie.

2D_Master said:

To be honest SF wasn't as bad as the MK movie.

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You've gotta be joking.

I thought the first MK movie was quite good, I was a huge fan of the game back then and despite wishing it featured more characters from the game than it did, I wasn't disappointed with it.

Street Fighter on the other hand, I rented and watched for about 10 minutes before taking it the fuck back. What a ridiculous, boring pile of shit.

Hewitson said:

You've gotta be joking.

I thought the first MK movie was quite good, I was a huge fan of the game back then and despite wishing it featured more characters from the game than it did, I wasn't disappointed with it.

Street Fighter on the other hand, I rented and watched for about 10 minutes before taking it the fuck back. What a ridiculous, boring pile of shit.

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How can you be a fan of the original MK game AND a fan of the movie? The movie took out everything that made MK what it was, no gore, no Fatalities... PG-13? Fuck that, even as A kid I was pissed that the movie was so soft.

I liked both of them.

NeoTheranthrope said:

What about that masterpiece of gaming: Street Fighter: the Movie: The game?

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And thats even the good version of the game, aka "doesn't play like mortal kombat and more like SSF2"

2D_Master said:

How can you be a fan of the original MK game AND a fan of the movie? The movie took out everything that made MK what it was, no gore, no Fatalities... PG-13? Fuck that, even as A kid I was pissed that the movie was so soft.

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I thought the soundtrack was awesome back then. As a stand-alone movie it did the job, if you want gore you can always watch one of the "SAW" films.

BigFred said:

if you want gore you can always watch one of the "SAW" films.

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I didn't want unesssary gore, I wanted the movie to resemble the game... hence the gore and fatalities. To deny that gore/violence was not a stable of the original MK games is pure bullshit. The MK movie was a cop-out. The soundtrack was kinda "cool" to me as a kid, but it's rather cheesey nowadays.... "MORRRRTALLL KOOOOMMMBAT!!".

I'll tell you, when the Street Fighter movie came out, I was incensed. You could tell just by the trailers that it was a flaming piece of shit bearing no relation to the story in the games whatsoever. I flat-out refused to watch it in the theater or on home video when the VHS hit. It wasn't until only a few years ago or so that I finally watched it on DVD, I think after hearing a lot of talk about it here.

Yeah, it's dumb.

But if you ask me now, I'd say that even though it's not the movie I would have wanted back in 1994, it's probably the movie the Street Fighter games deserved. In some ways, maybe even better than the games deserved.


Because let's face it, it's not like the real Street Fighter story is such hot shit, and the characters aren't exactly out of Death of a Salesman, either. Fuck it. Who cares?

2D_Master said:

I didn't want unesssary gore, I wanted the movie to resemble the game... hence the gore and fatalities. To deny that gore/violence was not a stable of the original MK games is pure bullshit.

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read: You were a kid and you wanted to be pandered to, dang it.

Well I'm sure I'm not the only personal who wanted to see somebody uppercutted into the pit. Instead, we get a rubber-suited Goro wanking some random no-name black guy to death.

Didn't Shang Tsung get uppercutted into some spikes?

Sexual Instinct said:

Didn't Shang Tsung get uppercutted into some spikes?

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No blood spewing in multiple directions; doesn't count.

On the subject of movies the game series deserved, I just watched Mortal Kombat Annihilation again for the first time since the theater, and I have to say that its reputation from the fans is hilariously undeserved.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a good movie, but it's no worse than the first one, really, and in some ways it's even closer to the source material than the first movie was. In fact, out of both MK movies and the SF movie, Annihilation is probably the most true to its source material of all of them.

I think a big part of the problem is that the MK audience was getting older by that time and maybe starting to realize how dumb their favorite game was.

2D_Master said:

Well I'm sure I'm not the only personal who wanted to see somebody uppercutted into the pit. Instead, we get a rubber-suited Goro wanking some random no-name black guy to death.

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You're a funny cunt man. I don't reckon I've ever laughed at a post on a forum as much as I just laughed at that.

NeoTheranthrope said:

What about that masterpiece of gaming: Street Fighter: the Movie: The game?

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I still like that game.

NeoTheranthrope said:

What about that masterpiece of gaming: Street Fighter: the Movie: The game?

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I love how the scientist in the background keeps working on his computer and completely ignores the "street fight" going on behind him.

I watched it again recently. Taking it for what it is, I actually enjoyed it somewhat.

IsamuBlue said:

I love how the scientist in the background keeps working on his computer and completely ignores the "street fight" going on behind him.

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Lol thats Dr. Dhalsim

Nice Star Trek sounds btw.

gum_drops said:

I watched it again recently. Taking it for what it is, I actually enjoyed it somewhat.

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I'd go a lot further than that. It doesn't matter if it was unintentional and for all the wrong reasons; the movie is hilarious.

It is a very watchable film. 17 years after its release, I'd say it's probably MORE watchable than it would have been if they had taken the subject matter and characters completely seriously.

NeoTheranthrope said:

What about that masterpiece of gaming: Street Fighter: the Movie: The game?

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The BGM is very good.

I hated the Mortal Kombat game but really enjoyed the first movie. It was a martial arts fantasy movie and it worked for me.

Annihilation failed for me. Not because I objected to its content or found it bad but because I found it to be disjointed, with awkward pacing, too many characters and a plot far more complicated than it needed to be. Giving Jax robot arms, adding animalities, adding all those extra characters and not delivering on any relevant plot threads with them, cutting Raiden's hair for no storyline reason...all these things distracted me from the purpose of the movie. What the fuck was this movie supposed to be about? And the costumes looked terrible in this movie, distractingly bad. The whole production was unpolished, felt unedited and came off as amateurish and that's why it failed for me.

The Street Fighter movie w/Van Damme is bad but not objectionably so. I don't grok the G.I. Joe vibe of the movie and think its a mishandling of the IPs, but as throwaway entertainment it's not the worst thing I've ever seen. I still contend that a compelling Street Fighter movie can be made. A good martial arts acton movie can be culled from the source material, and it doesn't require Shadaloo to be a Cobra style terrorist organization under siege from the United Nations for it to be so. It also doesn't require crazy liberties to be taken with the source material, as was the case with the Chun Li movie (which is a truly putrid film.)

It's not like any of the anime versions are any good either. Ryu is a boring protagonist.